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Michael Farris  
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 More options Mar 11 2003, 1:29 am
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From: m...@amu.edu.pl (Michael Farris)
Date: 10 Mar 2003 22:29:54 -0800
Local: Tues, Mar 11 2003 1:29 am
Subject: Re: Is there a one-word name for the country of Czechs?
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matin_lumin...@hotmail.com (matin) wrote in message <news:638e67d0.0302252102.7deb28e9@posting.google.com>...
> There was a Czechoslovakia, and there are a Slovakia and... a "Czech
> Republic".  But we do not have to call France "French Republic", don't
> we?

My very inelegant usage is:

the Czech Republic (formal)
Czech (informal)

as in.

I haven't been much in Czech, just Prague.

They went to Czech to go skiing.

I'm not crazy about it but I've heard others use it as well.
If I saw/heard more people using Czechia I would too, but til then ...

-michael farris


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